Azerbaijan: Appeal of the Civil Society Defense Committee

IRFS, Baku, 12 Jun 2009 – To Azerbaijani society, Azerbaijan Republic Milli Mejlis, Azerbaijan Republic President,…

Azerbaijan: Staff of State Fund to Assist in Development of Mass Media

IRFS, Baku, 25 May 2009 – President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree to appoint executive director…

Azerbaijan: JuHI Conducts Round Table on Journalists' Sosial Problems

IRFS, Baku, 21 May 2009 – Today, 21 May, the Journalists` Trade Union (JuHI) conducted a…

OSCE media freedom representative welcomes release of imprisoned journalists, urges legal reform in Azerbaijan

OSCE, Vienna, 21 Apr 2009 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti,…

Azerbaijan: Journalist imprisoned

IRFS, Baku, 17 Apr 2009 – Today, April 17, “Azadliq” Newspaper Ganja Region correspondent Ershad Ibrahimli…

Two imprisoned journalists released in Azerbaijan

CPJ, New York, 09 Apr 2009—Following today’s release of independent journalists Sakit Zakhidov and Asif Marzili…

Azerbaijan: One more journalist imprisoned for defamation

IRFS, Baku, 07 Apr 2009 – Today, 7 April, in the Yasamal District Court, under the…

Announcing a Journalism Contest: The Best Coverage of Conservation in the Caucasus Region

Media.ge, Tbilisi, 01 Apr 2009 – Open to journalists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia for…

Azerbaijan: Journalist faces pressure

IRFS, Baku, 18 Mar 2009 – RFE/RL correspondent Babek Bakir has not been allowed in polling…

Azerbaijan: Law on Mass Media has been changed

IRFS, Baku, 10 Mar 2009 – On 6 March, during a session of the Milli Mejlis,…

The Freedom of Expression Foundation of Oslo and ZEIT-Stiftung’s 2009 Press Prizes for Russia and Eastern Europe

Oslo, FEF, 06 Mar 2009 – The Freedom of Expression Foundation of Oslo and the ZEIT…